Herrick, Ellen - The Sparrow Sisters by Herrick Ellen

Herrick, Ellen - The Sparrow Sisters by Herrick Ellen

Author:Herrick, Ellen [Herrick, Ellen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-07-03T07:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER SEVEN

Agrimony is most soothing for stomach upset in children

The night that Patience and Henry found their way to a plan for Matty, Sam ferried Sally and Katherine to the hospital in Hayward. It had taken well over two hours to get back to the firehouse after the pick-up at Henry’s office and the hospital check-in. There was traffic both ways and paperwork of the most annoying sort, particularly because Henry Carlyle had scrawled his notes in an unreadable smear. Then, both Sally’s husband, Warren, and Dr. May peppered him with questions he couldn’t answer. He’d directed them to call Dr. Carlyle until Sally, who was by now settled in her bed with her baby at her breast, told everyone to just shut up.

“I think Dr. Carlyle is busy this evening,” she said and raised her eyebrows at Sam.

“Oh.” Sam got it. “Yeah, he was with someone when I left.” He was still smiling when he got back in the rig with his partner. Of course, he’d called his wife, Abigail, to tell her about Sally and to suggest that, from what he’d seen, this Dr. Carlyle was the one to call in an emergency.

It was about 5:30 A.M. when Sam’s unit got the call about Matty. Sam was as deep into sleep as you could be at six-foot-four in a bunk bed. Rob Short dialed 911 when he found his son slumped over the kitchen table. He was cold as ice, he told the operator; someone had to come right away. Rob was crying, and he didn’t stop until Sam’s partner got a sedative into him. Even then, he sat in the kitchen doorway and hiccupped. Police cars and a second ambulance pulled up within minutes, and the room filled with people. Poor Matty stayed where he was on the floor, where Rob had tried to revive him even as he felt the coldness seeping out of Matty and into him. The boy was surrounded now by gloves and stethoscopes and ripped packaging, the braided kitchen rug pushed up against the sink. It was apparent to everyone that he was dead and had been for some time. No one could move him again until the authorities came. Sam felt sick; he turned his head, not because the scene was grotesque, although it was, but because he was sure he felt his heart clawing up his throat. When the coroner arrived, he cleared out everyone but Sam. Dr. Clayton gestured with a gloved hand, and Rob Short was led into the living room by two policemen who sat with him while Matty’s body was loaded onto a gurney. Sam couldn’t believe how light he was as he lifted him. When the coroner OK’d the transfer, Sam had nearly thrown the body because he’d been so surprised by its lack of substance. He cradled Matty for a moment before he put him on the open body bag. Maybe it was because Abigail was pregnant or because he’d checked Sally’s newborn only hours before, but Dr.



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